Photos of the Day: Oct. 14

In today's photos, an Occupy Wall Street protester rests his chin on a police officer in New York, an iPhone customer leaps into a store employee's arms in London, a woman waves goodbye before going on the hajj pilgrimage from the Gaza Strip and more.

Updated Oct. 14, 2011 11:29 p.m. ET

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LEAP FOR JOY: A customer jumped into the arms of an Apple employee outside the Apple store in Covent Garden in London Friday to celebrate his purchase of the new iPhone 4S, which went on sale in the U.K., U.S., Canada, Australia, France, Germany and Japan Friday.
Kirsty Wigglesworth/Associated Press…

BOWING DOWN: A woman begged for money on Tverskaya Street in Moscow Friday. The number of people in Russia living below the poverty line has grown by about two million in the first six months of 2011, according to new figures released by the state statistics service.
Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images…

ALLOWED TO STAY: An Occupy Wall Street protestor pressed his head into a police officer's chest in New York Friday. The company that owns the park at the center of the Occupy Wall Street movement postponed a planned cleaning of the site, a New York City deputy mayor said early Friday.
John Minchillo/Associated Press…

HIGH WATER: Treetops emerged from floodwater in Pathum Thani Province, Thailand, Friday. Some 8.2 million people in 61 of Thailand's 77 provinces have been affected by the worst floods in half a century, which have killed 283 people since late July.
Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters…

COUNT CAREFULLY: A trader checked an account book amid stacked boxes of apples at a wholesale fruit market on the outskirts of Jammu in Indian-administered Kashmir, Friday.
Mukesh Gupta/Reuters…

RESCUE MISSION: A fireman searched Friday for three missing people after a landslide in Cuevas de la Almanzora, Spain, where houses are dug into the hillside.
Francisco Bonilla/Reuters…

SPIN CITY: Dario Franchitti of Scotland, driver of the #10 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Dallara Honda, drove a parade lap down the Las Vegas Boulevard Strip Thursday as a preview to the IndyCar World Series Championship.
Getty Images for IndyCar…

FIGHTING IN LIBYA: A revolutionary fighter fired his machine gun against supporters of Moammar Gadhafi in Sirte, Libya, Friday. In Tripoli, a gunbattle erupted between revolutionary forces and pro-Gadhafi fighters for the first time in more than two months.
Manu Brabo/Associated Press…

A ROYAL WEDDING: Men wore the gho, the traditional national attire for men in Bhutan, as they gathered along a hill to see King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and his new bride, Queen Jetsun Pema, in Bhutan's capital, Thimphu, Friday.
Adrees Latif/Reuters…

SO LONG: A Palestinian woman waved as she sat in a bus leaving the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip for the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca Friday.
Mohammed Salem/Reuters…

BIG STASH: A police officer stood guard by seized packages of cocaine that were shown to the press in Puerto Gaitan, Colombia, Thursday. Police say they seized more than six tons of cocaine during a raid on a laboratory in the rural area.
William Fernando Martinez/Associated Press…